I really wonder if the developers of Firefox Quantum ever worked
with the search bar. It became obviously so cumbersome that you
can’t really work with it any more. The search bar was in the past
the reason why Firefox became so popular. Now, there is actually no
difference any more compared to Chrome or Edge.
The efficient workflow in the past was like this:
Select with one click a search engine for the next few queries
(e.g. for translation)
Enter Text and press Enter or Alt+Enter to get a new tab.
Repeat 2. several times until your work is done
This is the same work flow when working with real books:
You go to the book shelf, take out a dictionary and put it on
your desk.
You search a word and leave the page open.
You repeat 2. several times until your work is done
Now this is totaly messed up. And you need more steps. When you
set a search engine as default, the list of search engines will
become disordered. Imagine all this with books. Every time you
search something, your books jumps back into the book shelf. And
you have first to look for a certain page with the word to search
and then you have to select the book in the shelf. And you have to
take the book every time again from the shelf. And when you set a
default book, the order of books in your shelf is messed up.
So again: Please return the old search bar!